Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congressman Jim Cooper is under attack by the White House -- and he's $ relishing every minute of it. "That's a special place of honor," he says. "It's the highest compliment you can be paid in politics." Actually, it's not the soft-spoken Tennessee Democrat himself who has rankled the Administration. It's Cooper's health-care plan, a centrist proposal that has become the clear favorite of the Democratic Leadership Council, the very forum that served as the launching pad for Clinton's assault on the Oval Office. "Who am I? I'm a nobody," Cooper demurs...
Kelley is best known for his soft sculptures involving found objects -- soiled, discarded stuffed toys, from teddy bears and bunnies to green plush snakes, which he sews together into teeming clumps or exhibits, in solitary pathos, on mats on the floor. You can cite a host of precedents for this, from Claes Oldenburg to Jackson Pollock, but the effect really depends on the nakedness with which Kelley presents the toys as elements in a free-form psychodrama about threat and vulnerability; they're like the dolls that witch- hunting lawyers use to elicit the evidence of children in abuse prosecutions...
...Peter's Square, above the terminus of the No. 64 bus, a line infamous for pickpockets. Each morning he sets off on foot at a brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors...
...This year I've been working a lot harder, and I think it's helped a lot. Instead of giving up a couple of soft ones, I've been able to up my play a little...
...epic trip to the Porter Square Star Market. On the return trip on the T, two of us carried back a 22-pound turkey, three boxes of Stove Top stuffing, two boxes of instant mashed potatoes, a head of lettuce, four liters of soft drinks, plus tomatoes, cucumbers, a turkey baster, a pan to cook the turkey, salt, pepper and assorted herbs and spices...